currentbias

currentbias, 2 hours ago to random

I would love to hear about how bad the pollen is, along with the implicit understanding that I am not allowed to suggest an innovative tool that would make an immediate difference with no side effects (a fucking N95)

currentbias, 3 days ago to H5N1

"On 24 April, the USDA mandated testing of lactating dairy cows prior to their movement between states, and reporting of positive influenza A test results in livestock."

This is why I'm going so hard on #FluIsAirborne. When the air is left out of the conversation, nothing gets done to stop non-lactating cows -- you know, the ones that still have lungs, and can breathe -- from continuing to spread airborne #H5N1

This is just #PublicHealth theater (again)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01416-7

currentbias, 3 days ago to random

The evidence that covid can dysregulate the immune system is — at this point — extensive, though not well-publicized. A close eye on covid-related subreddits will reveal — with surprising frequency — posts asking about, or describing, anecdotal experiences with this. Here are over a dozen:

https://blog.open-source-eschaton.net/immune-dysregulation-reddit-edition

#SARSCoV2 #covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver #immunology #ImmuneDysregulation

currentbias, 3 days ago to random

"... how many people know COVID-19 infection can cause headaches and migraines weeks or months later? Or that it can cause fainting? Nausea? Heart attacks? Cardiac complications in adults and children? Embolisms? ADHD-like symptoms? Neurological issues? How many people are suffering the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 infection but not drawing the causal link and instead ascribing their new conditions to bad luck or aging?"

https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/honesty-about-covid-is-essential-for-progress/

#covid #LongCovid #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 5 days ago to random

You think it makes me happy to have to tell you vaccines aren't enough? That air purifiers aren't enough? That there are situations where we have to filter each breath we take, because we let a stealth predator like SARSCoV2 loose? One that prefers to maim instead of kill, though kill it still does? I am not having fun, here. I derive no glee from this. This isn't my idea of a good time. This is 24/7 Cassandra syndrome -- truth exemplifying how much stranger it is than fiction

#covid

currentbias, 5 days ago to random

It's not about living in fear. It's about adapting to the actual reality. I experience less fear when I go out in a respirator because of what I understand about #covid. The pre-2019 world is not coming back, and we either process that, grieve it, and adapt, or slowly succumb to a virus far more dangerous than we have been led to believe. It doesn't matter what you think of me. It matters what you think of that. I am just a messenger (like messenger RNA, you know?)

currentbias, 5 days ago to random

If your belief in harm reduction stops at your comfort zone, that's just a belief in making yourself feel better

currentbias, 6 days ago to random

I admire whoever does what they can to avoid spreading SARSCoV2 to others, but I would very much not underestimate the damage #covid can do to healthy immune systems and every organ system in the body. It should be emphasized relentlessly that this is an immunodysregulating virus by nature -- the science on that is crystal clear by this point, it's just not publicized. Consenting to that damage is between you and god. I would prefer a normal lifespan, myself

currentbias, 9 days ago to random

A shitty part of an otherwise great article:

"People who misunderstood airborne spread needlessly wore masks on outdoor walks and veered off sidewalks to avoid their neighbors."

1. people have closed face-to-face distance on me incredibly fast, and I was caught scrambling to put on a mask, when I could otherwise have already been wearing one
2. motherfucking #TireDust is a thing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fight-about-viruses-in-the-air-is-finally-over-now-its-time-for-healthy/

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 15 days ago to random

The sheer amount of people who stopped wearing masks as soon as they were optional demonstrates how many people never understood why they were wearing them in the first place, which is a tremendous and ongoing failure of institutional public health

#CovidIsAirborne #FluIsAirborne

currentbias, 17 days ago to random

Good job, everyone -- western societies are clearly incapable of thinking about the heinous shit we spread to each other through the air, and people like me are going to have to repeat ourselves for the rest of our lives, countering decades of public health propaganda

currentbias, 17 days ago to random

Sometimes people talk like it's obvious to everyone that the #flu is airborne, but I have never seen -- in a pretty liberal area of the US -- a doctor in a respirator mask during flu season in my life (and I'm 32)

A 2013 study using non-respirator surgical masks -- so this is undoubtedly an underestimate -- still concluded that half out of 782 #influenza A transmissions in Hong Kong and Bangkok households happened this way:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2922

#FluIsAirborne

JamesGleick, 18 days ago to random

If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @molly0xfff offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @pluralistic and Jaron Lanier.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

currentbias, 21 days ago to random

"Herein, we describe the clinical case of an immunosuppressed host in whom inadequate treatment resulted in highly diverse SARS-CoV-2 mutations that threatened the patient’s health due to the development of drug-resistant variants."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47941-x

#SARSCoV2 #covid #covid19 #antiviral #DrugResistant #PublicHealth

dave, 24 days ago to random

T and I went into Wellington, my first time in the city to shop and mooch in ages. Nice and easy, and managed not to use all of my spoons either !

currentbias, 24 days ago to random

3 things to remember:

1. it only takes 5 amino acid substitutions to produce an H5N1 that is mammal-to-mammal airborne

2. it took the WHO 2 years to admit SARSCoV2 was airborne, and 4 years to integrate that admission into public guidance

3. influenza viruses evolved to spread through the air, and airborne pathogens make the best superspreaders, no matter how much RNA they find in milk

#FluIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne

currentbias, 24 days ago to random

"So much of this, as other writers have said, is about class in America. The Times’ Covid coverage has frequently tilted toward the needs of white and wealthy readers—ones who could sequester away at home or in their country houses during the height of the pandemic, whose kids went to schools with new ventilation systems and Covid testing and for whom the pandemic response was just good enough."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-revisionism-next-pandemic/

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 25 days ago to random

"Zionism is often regarded as a Jewish movement. In fact, the vast majority of Zionists are Christian. Moreover, Christian Zionism is usually considered to be a subset of Zionism. In contrast to this popular misconception, we should understand that Christian Zionism is the majority expression of Zionism; Jewish Zionism is an outgrowth of Christian Zionism."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctvbcd292.12.pdf

currentbias, 25 days ago to random

"Black Americans Are Going Vegan At A Higher Rate Than Anyone Else"

https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/black-americans-vegan/

"Black and vegan: Why so many Black Americans are embracing the plant-based life"

https://www.today.com/food/black-vegan-why-so-many-black-americans-are-embracing-plant-t209743

From the Today article by Vidya Rao on February 26, 2021: Cole is among a growing community of Black vegan chefs, bloggers, cookbook authors, social media influencers and celebrities who are changing perceptions about veganism. Beyonce and Serena Williams tout the benefits of veganism, and hip-hop culture has embraced it, too. In 2016, health and wellness — incorporating plant-based eating, food justice and animal rights activism — was added as the tenth element of hip-hop (putting it alongside elements like breakdancing and beat-boxing). Black vegan cookbook authors like Bryant Terry and Jenne Claiborne share recipes and how-tos for plant-based cuisine rooted in the African diaspora and Black American culinary traditions.

currentbias, 26 days ago to random

"Between Jan 3 and April 28, 2023, 317 tissue samples were collected from 225 patients. [...] Our findings suggest that residual SARS-CoV-2 can persist in patients who have recovered from mild COVID-19 and that there is a significant association between viral persistence and long COVID symptoms."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00171-3/fulltext

#SARSCoV2 #covid #covid19 #LongCovid #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 28 days ago to academia

"For $5m, Louisiana's flagship university will let an oil company weigh in on faculty research activities. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research study, with 'robust' reviewing powers and access to all resulting intellectual property."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/louisiana-state-university-oil-firms-influence

#academia #climate #environment

benroyce, 1 month ago to random

Those of us of a certain age remember when #rawmilk used to be a thing of crunchy hippies. Much like #antivax nonsense as well.

Of course, the antivax crowd are mostly #MAGA types nowadays, and, guess what? MAGA recently went gaga over raw milk.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

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